Here is what happened: I have a white case computer p4 2.53 GHz with 2
hard drives. One 30 gig and one 200 gig. The 30 gig is partitioned
into two drive letters. (?C? at 19 gigs and ?D? at 11 gigs) I have Win
XP Media Center 2004 on ?C? and Win XP Pro on ?D? and the 200 gig is
?E?. All formatted in NTSF. A music file on ?E? was corrupted so I
rebooted thinking scan disk on boot up would fix it ? HERE is where
the problem came:

When the computer booted up the ?E? drive (200 gigs) was gone! ?C? and
?D? were there and the computer was running fine. The device manager
and motherboard ?See? the drives. The 200 gig hard drive now ?thinks?
it?s a 11 gig and ALL of drive ?E? is ?GONE?. Drive ?C? now states it
is a 30 gig drive, but with only 4 gigs free.

So here is my theory: somehow the directory on drive ?D? was copied to
drive ?E? (200 gig), but the data is still on the 30 gig drive (?C?
and ?D?). I really don?t have anything ?that? important on the ?E?
drive (70 gigs on downloaded music etc.), but would love for my own
sake to solve this problem.

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Clarification of Question by uncleronnie-ga on 09 May 2005 21:05 PDT

I removed the 200 gig and installed into another computer and it still
showed the directory on the "D" Drive not the 200 gig "E" Directory.

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Request for Question Clarification by livioflores-ga on 09 May 2005 21:05 PDT

As a very first try I suggest you to turn off your computer and remove
the 200 Gb disk (just disconnect it) and the reboot to see what
happens. Then if it run properly according to this configuration turn
it off and reconnect the 200 GB disk again. Boot and see what happens.

Good luck!!

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Clarification of Question by uncleronnie-ga on 10 May 2005 07:36 PDT

I did do that and the computer will boot to the Win MCE 04 on drive
?C? but not the XP Pro on ?D?. Gives error of no disk. I have taken
the 200 gig ?E? out of the computer and ran it in another computer and
it still ?thinks? it?s a 11 gig drive with all the Win XP info on it.
I even accessed a picture on the drive and it opened it. I was
thinking that none of the information would be on the drive, just the
?cloned? directory, but now I wonder? Just makes no sense to me ? how
could it have copied the drive when windows was running?

have you gotten this problem taken care of?

If not I would suggest going into the control panel and then into the
"Administrative Tools" (this may be under "Performance and
Maitenence") then open the "Computer Management".

On the left side of the screen click on the "disk management".  On the
bottom right side of the screen you should have a list of each
physical disk broken down into individual partitions.  You can see
what drive letters each partition is set to.  You can mount a
partition as a folder in the file system of another partition instead
of as its own drive letter.  Look through there and see what you find.

I hope its already fixed, but if not, I hope this helps!

I'm sure you'll laugh but make sure that there are no hidden files on
it if there is delete it... i know it sounds stupid... but stupider
things have happened...like me saying stupider... :-p

right click my computer, select manage, go to disk management, find
the new Hard drive, right clcik, change drive letter to somthing not
used.